After the lead blocks cooled, Xu Chen asked someone to pick them out of the sand.

Although these leads are connected together, Xu Chen had a broken position when making the sand mold, so he could cut it off with just a few slight strokes of a stone axe. Then he got lead pieces of ten centimeters in length, each piece about three centimeters thick.

Because the density of lead is greater than that of copper and silver, the weight of a piece of palm size is very scary, at least three or four kilograms.

The cool lead blocks were passed through the savages, and the exclamations came one after another.

Especially the great witch of the Five Ghosts clan, holding such a piece of metal that weighed completely beyond the cognitive range in both hands, her body trembled violently and could not stop.

These black stones have been cursed by gods and contaminated by demons, but burned with fire can actually turn into water, and after cooling, they can become such a heavy and cold thing.

For her, the process from stone to metal was tantamount to the power of a god.

This metal called lead is heavy and soft, with an incomprehensible mysterious attribute.

In an instant, the great witch thought of the wonderful use of this metal. It seemed that it could be made into pottery-like things. It only needs to be beaten with stones to make pottery pots and bowls. Even if it cannot be placed in the fire, it should be good to use it to serve water for meals.

“￥#@…”

The great witch walked to Xu Chen excitedly with the lead blocks and gestured.

The guide of the clan clan quickly followed the gesture and translated: "Your Majesty the Witch King, the great witch asked if the lead block can be beaten into something like pottery?"

Xu Chen quickly shook his head and warned: "Tell them that this lead is still very toxic and must not be used to make dietary utensils. Smelted lead should be placed in remote places and washed hands after taking it. In addition, tell them not to drink the water from this valley, and try not to eat fish in the lake..."

Looking at Xu Chen's serious attitude and the translation content, the Great Witch and a group of Five Ghosts tribes were all nervous, and the people who were passing the lead blocks were also putting the lead blocks back to the ground in horror.

The entire tribe has long been tortured by curses and demons, and is extremely miserable. Now that it has just improved, no one wants to get involved in such cursed things anymore.

Seeing everyone's horror, Xu Chen had to comfort and explain a few words, saying that as long as he didn't eat it or was stuck on his skin and body for a long time, he would not be poisoned. Whether it was mining or smelting, remember to wash his body frequently every day and try to wash away all the poison.

With this explanation, the panic of the Five Ghosts tribes slowly calmed down again.

Smelting any metal is poisonous, and most of it is burned and discharged from toxic gas. The same is true for lead smelting, which is mainly sulfur dioxide. At high temperatures, some metal ions and dust will inevitably be mixed in the smoke. If inhaled for a long time, poisoning is inevitable.

However, in such a sparsely populated and open place, and it is just a small soil blast furnace with a capacity of several hundred kilograms, the natural circulation of the air can greatly dilute the toxic smoke, and the damage to the body can be minimized.

What's more, the Five Ghosts have been poisoned for hundreds of years, and few of the five tribes are completely healthy. Compared with the inhaled poisoning damage caused by smelting, they actually absorb more toxins in their daily lives.

Think about it, it is a miracle to apply lead powder to your body all year round since the birth of a child.

Xu Chen believed that if it weren't for the fact that he needed to find lead ore, the entire Five Ghost Clan would have been completely dead in a few decades.

Look at their current children, almost none of them are healthy. They are really like a group of horrible and deformed children born under the curse of demons, making them explode with scalp.

The closed survival of the Five Ghosts Clan is actually forced to do so.

Although primitive people don’t seem to care much about their appearance, they actually have their own aesthetics and values. Fine features and strong bodies are the most simple standards. At least everyone must look similar. When people from the Five Ghosts tribes go out, they will inevitably be considered heretics like monsters, and it is reasonable to be expelled or even killed.

Although the Jia tribe and the Five Ghosts are very close to each other, their daily lives are limited to communication with some hunters who seem to be normal. They are not particularly clear about the real situation of the Five Ghosts. It was not until this time that they followed Xu Chen and finally fully understood the situation of the Five Ghosts for the first time that they understood why the Five Ghosts were difficult to deal with. The main reason was that they were afraid that the tribe would be cursed and had to be isolated in this lake and valley to suffer and die.

Lead poisoning was also very difficult to treat in later generations with advanced medicine, let alone in this primitive and wilderness era.

The only treatment that Xu Chen knew was to take phosphate drugs, so as to form lead phosphate deposits in the bones and does not enter the blood circulation, and the poisoning situation will gradually be alleviated.

But for these large groups that have been poisoned to the point where they have begun to destroy body tissues and genetic genes, even gods cannot save them. The only way is to relocate as a whole, and to carry out natural regulation and recovery through the environment, hoping that future generations can return to normal.

These five ghosts who have been poisoned and have no hope of recovery can only change their dietary habits and lifestyles, reduce the continued intake of lead and slow down the possibility of continued poisoning.

The most important thing is that he needs the Five Ghosts to help him refine lead. Anyway, he has been poisoned, so he uses it as a waste, and uses their last light and heat to contribute to the breakthrough and development of human civilization, in exchange for Xu Chen's care for the normal group of their tribe and the opportunity to reproduce and survive.

Their tribe's terrifying look was almost impossible to accommodate them anywhere.

If Xu Chen hadn't come forward to help, it would have been a dream for them to go to Gonghuo Brain to obtain a new habitat. Once their ugly and terrifying appearance appeared in Gonghuo Brain, they would have been killed by Gonghuo tribe and other affiliated tribes.

The great witches of the Five Ghosts Clan knew that this opportunity was hard-won, so they cherished it very much.

Even if lead is a poison that has been contaminated by gods and demons, they will do their best to help Xu Chen dig and smel.

The best ending is to sacrifice some of the already cursed tribe members to exchange for the rebirth of the tribe.

Therefore, more than 300 people from the entire Five Ghost Tribe were not only without any resistance, but were grateful to Xu Chen, saying that in the future, the Five Ghost Tribes will follow the arrangements of His Majesty the Witch King for generations, be willing to submit to the spiritual guidance of the great witch of the Ba clan, become a normal group again, and integrate into the leadership of the Ba clan alliance.

After successfully smelting the first furnace of lead, the Five Ghosts Clan almost completed the mission on this exploration journey.

What remains are the subsequent arrangements.

The first is to let the Five Ghosts continue to arrange people to smel lead, and the quantity does not need to be too large. Without affecting the survival of the tribe, it is enough to arrange people to dig and smel in autumn and winter. The smelted lead blocks are temporarily sent to the Thunder Clan for storage. At that time, Xu Chen will arrange people to transport them back to the Ba tribe through the waterways of Ji Canghe and Wulong River.

The second is to collect sulfur in the lead ore while smelting lead.

The third is to let the Five Ghosts select those tribes with basically normal physical appearance and take them to the Gonghuo Bain to live and develop.

Because with the advent of house building technology, there is no need to find places with caves to survive now, but just build houses in safe places with water sources. Therefore, the location arrangement should not be too far from the Gonghuo Clan and Thunder Clan, so as to form a population agglomeration effect and accumulate a foundation for future urban development.

The only problem at the moment is that Gonghuo Braziland is still the territory of the Gonghuo Clan Alliance after all, and this matter requires saying hello to Gonghuo Clan to avoid panic and misunderstandings.

Therefore, after Xu Chen summoned a group of people to discuss, he arranged for the guide of the clan clan to take a few Gonghuo tribe hunters to report the matter first, and asked the great witch of the Gonghuo tribe to help arrange the residence of the Five Ghosts tribes. In order to prevent the Gonghuo tribes from being afraid and afraid, he was hostile to the people of the Five Ghosts tribes, so he specially asked a group of people to bring his own dragon-tooth scimitar to express his attitude.

"Your Majesty the Witch King, so many people go to Gonghuo, I'm afraid they will be short of food!"

After the arrangements were completed, when the five tribes of the Five Ghosts Alliance began to select tribe members who were preparing to move like a festival sacred book, Lei privately found Xu Chen to remind him of a very important issue.

"Is the Thunder Clan very short of food now?" Xu Chen couldn't help asking.

Lei nodded awkwardly and briefly explained the current situation of the Thunder Clan and Gonghuo Clan.

The Thunder Clan moved to Gonghuo Basin in the early spring. There were more than 50 people in the entire tribe, and there were only more than ten adult hunters, most of whom were women, children, elderly and weak, and food was always lacking. On weekdays, hunting also requires the help of hunters from a group of returning prisoner legions of the Gonghuo Clan to basically meet the tribe's food needs.

Not long ago, Xu Chen sent him more than 30 people from La tribe, all of whom were women, children, old and weak, and there was not a single adult man. This made the food crisis of the Thunder Clan even worse.

Although they collected a lot of seeds such as wheat beans in autumn and winter, most of them had to stay in spring sow and could not be used. Therefore, they rely entirely on hunting and fishing on weekdays. It is difficult to obtain meat in winter. So now the tribe is already in a state of difficulty in getting very hard for every meal. Various plant rhizomes and some plants that do not collect edible plants, snakes, rats, insects, etc., have been included in the food range, but they still cannot meet the supply. The entire tribe has been in a semi-hungry state.

And with the arrival of cold winter, the warm skin is also a big gap.

As a tribe of the Wu tribe, this kind of hunger and cold relationship has not been encountered for a long time.

The state of the Gonghuo Clan is actually similar to that of the Thunder Clan. Because of the lack of manpower, the food is short of food and the gap in the skin is even larger, because most of their skins are used to pay war compensation and redeem hostages.

The lack of food and clothing in winter and spring is the most realistic problem for all tribes at present.

One of the Gonghuo Clan and the Thunder Clan has expanded too quickly because of their population, while the other has performed more prominently because of the lack of strong labor.

In order to build more houses and burn land before spring, both ethnic groups have a greater demand for the working population, and invest more manpower to speed up the construction speed by reducing their expenses.

Although Xu Chen conquered the Yu Gong tribe and the Mao Tun tribe not long ago imported a group of working people to several tribes that participated in the war, what followed was a further shortage of food.
Chapter completed!